IRWIN APPEL

Irwin Appel has performed Off-Broadway and regionally with Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Shakespeare Festival/LA, the New York, Oregon, Utah and Colorado Shakespeare Festivals, The Acting Company, Theatre For a New Audience, Hartford Stage, Indiana Repertory Theatre, and other prominent regional theatres.  Roles include:  the title role in Richard III , Oscar Wilde in Gross Indecency (Santa Barbara Independent Award), Shylock in Merchant of Venice, Prospero in The Tempest, Matt in Talley’s Folly, Macbeth in Kabuki Macbeth, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, Kent in King Lear, Konstantin in The Seagull, Octavius in Man and Superman, and Weinberl in On the Razzle.  This coming summer, he will be acting the role of the Earl of Oxford in The Beard of Avon for Santa Barbara City College Theatre Group, and Falstaff in the Merry Wives of Windsor for Shakespeare Santa Barbara.  He is also a director and composer/sound designer, having worked locally with the Ensemble Theatre, PCPA and TAG , and nationally with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, SRT and others.  He is currently an Associate Professor of Dramatic Art at UCSB, and has directed Pentecost, A View From the Bridge, The Cherry Orchard, Speed-the-Plow, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Crucible for Theatre UCSB.  He is a graduate of Princeton University and the Drama Division of the Juilliard School.

Return to Performance Page